Is Iran a Martyr State?GROTTO, ANDREWBrown Journal of World Affairs
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is not posing any threat to other countries, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, according to State TV, adding that Tehran was determined to guarantee its own security. "Iran poses no threat to any other country ... Our onl...
The first blast was about 700 meters from the tomb and the second was a kilometer away. Rahman Jalali, the deputy governor of Kerman province for political and security affairs, told the agency the explosions were carried out by "terrorists," according to IRNA. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Kham...
Iranian state media claimed the country used its new ballistic Fattah missile in its attack on Israel on Tuesday night. There is some doubt, however. Defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke said: "If [Iran was] using it, I think they would have used more of i...
“[I]f you look at, as an example, President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, who was charged with crimes going back decades, including illegally buying oil from Iran while it held 53 American hostages — wasn’t allowed to do that, selling to the enemies of the United States,” Trump said ...
TEHRAN, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran has arrested seven people linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi announced on Sunday. "Seven people related to the Daesh (IS) terrorist group, who had plots (for sabotage acts), were identified and arrested on ...
Every recognized country in the world is a member. There are 193 total member states in the U.N., along with two non-member observers: the Holy See – the government of the Catholic Church based in Vatican City – and the State of Palestine. Which countries are not in the U.N.? Som...
Sadreddin Mousavi, an assistant professor in Islamic political thought at the state-owned Research Institute of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution, said "easing of tensions is a positive step that should be welcomed since Iran and Saudi Arabia are two major and most influential regional countries...
Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, inherit worrying biases from the datasets they were trained on: When asked to write a program that would determine “whether a person should be tortured,” OpenAI’s answer is simple: If they they’re from North Korea, Syria, or Iran, the answ...
KABUL, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. forces inAfghanistanon Monday confirmed that a top leader of Islamic State (IS) group was killed during a joint operation in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar late last month. Emir or top leader of IS Sheikh Abdul Hasib was killed on April 27 in...